Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:24:09PM CEST: > On a system running the very latest modern release of AIX 4.3.3 I am > encountering this problem at the end of 'make check': > > PASS: utilities/tests/preview_threshold.sh > PASS: utilities/tests/preview_wave.sh > gmake[3]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are too long. > gmake[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 127 > > The package uses Automake 1.11 with these Automake options: > > AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.11 subdir-objects parallel-tests color-tests > dist-bzip2 dist-lzma foreign
Does that error go away if you remove the parallel-tests option? The list of test logs in GraphicsMagick has a length of 24132 over here, which isn't surprising to exceed the AIX 4.3.3 limit (see <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/>). But the old test suite driver should have had the same problem, as it also expands $(TESTS) which isn't much shorter (23348 here). So far we do not know of a portable way (both to different operating systems and to different make implementations) to work around this limit in a general way. With many Automake constructs, you can use multiple special variables (see the "Length Limitations" node in the manual), but such a solution has not been implemented in Automake for tests yet. You should be able to work around it by splitting tests in pieces, and running things piecewise only for now; assuming the *_TESTS variables are all nonempty: TESTS = $(WAND_TESTS) $(UTILITIES_TESTS) ... check-wand: $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS \ TESTS='$(WAND_TESTS)' TEST_SUITE_LOG=test-suite-wand.log check-utilities: ... I agree that it's a bit of a kludge (and I haven't tested it yet). Cheers, Ralf
